In July 2012 we had our fantastic roundtrip in Costa Rica. We started our tour in the city of Atenas.
This area is known for having the best climate in the world.
We visited a small organic coffee plantation near Atenas called El Toledo. We took the tour and learned a lot about this nice plantation which is managed by the friendly family of Gerardo Calderon, the founder and owner of the farm. The difference between regular coffee plantations and this plantation is that their coffee production system is based on the ideology of understanding nature and working with it. They introduce diverse and implementing methods of conservation which facilitate the production, but also preserve and protect the environment. They told and educated us their efforts to understand the environment and work with nature instead of against it. The main purpose of their way of producing coffee is that they strive to minimize the impact on the ecology so as to preserve it for the generations to come. During this tour we not only learned about producing coffee, but also a lot of the nature of Costa Rica.
As enthusiastic geocachers we wanted to place a cache in Costa Rica. After our tour in Costa Rica ended it was clear to us that we wanted to place this cache near this remarkable place.
The cache is well camouflaged and placed in front of the El Toledo coffee plantation. Gabriel and Raul, the two sons of Gerardo Calderon, know about this cache and they will maintain this cache for us. As a gift for the FTF we placed our own woody "Skidroopy" in the container!
Pura Vida!